Mauser T-Gewehr M1918 antitank rifle
Designed c.1917 and produced c.1918 by Mauser in Oberndorf, German Empire – serial number 1958.
13,2x92mmSR TuF single-shot rifle, Mauser bolt action, MG08/15 bipod, total weight of around 18kg/40lbs.
As tanks became more common, refined and armoured on the Western Front, the repurposed elephant guns or German K bullets used so far to pierce armor plates became insufficient to damage them. This prompted development of a new purpose-made infantry antitank rifle, which took form of a rifle using the previously designed Tanks und Flieger cartridge meant to feed an antitank antiaircraft Maxim gun to be deployed in 1919.
This beast of a rifle offers its shooter all the comfort once could expect during WW1, that is a pistol grip and a medal for when the recoil eventually breaks your shoulder after repeated firing.
IT’S huge, IT’S heavy & it will break you shoulder.